The Audit Corps conducts, among other things, criminal cases of military personnel violating the law when it has taken place in the service.
The judge ruled that the 20-year-old man should be remanded in custody for four weeks and was thus in line with the auditor corps.
The man is accused of taking the hand grenade with him from a shooting exercise on May 26 in Borris Shooting Range. According to the auditors, this is a violation of the weapons section of the Penal Code.
It says that a violation of the Firearms Act must trigger a minimum of two years in prison when it happens in extremely aggravating circumstances. This may, for example, be in the possession of explosives.
The constitutional hearing was held behind closed doors for the sake of further investigation of the case. Christina Barnow is therefore not allowed to disclose details from the closed part of the hearing.
However, she can state that the 20-year-old admits to having violated the Firearms Act, but not in particularly aggravating circumstances.
The difference between the two positions will be significant in connection with a sentencing. A simple violation of the Firearms Act will likely trigger a sentence of a few months in prison.
But if you are convicted according to the provision of the Penal Code, the minimum sentence is two years. And not only that:
The penalty for the serious offenses must in principle be unconditional imprisonment. It appears from the comments to the law where the gun legislation has been tightened
Source: The Nordic Page